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Nuage Networks Expands Ecosystem Program to Drive SDN Adoption with Overlay Model

Nuage Networks Expands Ecosystem Program to Drive SDN Adoption with Overlay Model Image Credit: Alcatel Lucent/Flickr

Alcatel-Lucent's SDN (software-defined networking) start-up venture, Nuage Networks, Monday announced that it is expanding the Nuage Networks Ecosystem, an ecosystem of open source community projects, ecosystem partners, systems integration partners, developers, and customers for Development and Operations (DevOps) clouds based on OpenStack. The current partner technologies supporting the ecosystem include F5 Big IP Local Traffic Manager for application delivery, Infoblox DDI for DNS, DHCP and IP address management, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series for next-generation firewall protection, and Red Hat OSP 6 as the OpenStack distribution.

According to Nuage Networks, it is working with a broad range of partners and communities at every level in the IT stack – such as core networking, server platforms, virtualization, security, and system integrators. This provides the core components required for public and private DevOps clouds at any scale based on existing, proven, and operational models. By leveraging experience from deployments at leading enterprise and cloud service provider customers, Nuage Networks said that it has built several reference architectures for DevOps cloud infrastructures that are united by a common orchestration framework – OpenStack – and by a common networking platform –Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP)

Nuage Networks ecosystem leverages Nuage Networks VSP, overlaying a virtualized network on an existing networking environment. By managing both virtualized and bare metal resources side-by-side, each data center network can be managed by a single approach. By uniting the networks across data centers (also called federation), all data centers, all discrete clouds (e.g. Development clouds) and the entire DevOps environment are managed as a whole, said the company.

Brad Casemore, Research Director, Datacenter Networking, IDC
Enterprises adopting OpenStack are looking for a cloud-native, open approach to datacenter networking that accords primacy to application workloads and DevOps processes. To provide what customers need, vendors must work together to form complete ecosystems, extending all the way from the OpenStack distribution through to network infrastructure, network and security services, and even professional services. With its partner program, Nuage Networks is building an extensive ecosystem that holistically addresses the needs of organizations that want to move ahead with real-world OpenStack deployments.

Sunil Khandekar, CEO, Nuage Networks
We are honored to work with market and thought leading customers in the enterprise and cloud service provider markets. We’re sharing the lessons learned from actual OpenStack deployments to build not only a comprehensive reference architecture but also a complete ecosystem of network vendors. Through our ecosystem, we are enabling OpenStack clouds to exceed the capabilities of legacy architectures – and that provides our customers with a competitive advantage.

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